This is the mantra I'm clinging to at the moment.
We've been staying at my Mum's house for a month now, while we make our new house habitable. The idea was that we'd do it a bit at a time and live in it almost immediately- maybe just stay with Mum for a week or so to get it rewired. Anyway, the best laid plans and all that.....
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| Home Sweet Home...sort of |
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| The wall of stone. |
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| Our living room |
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| Kitchen |
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| the landing |
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| The bathroom was one of the worst rooms. |
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| Gypsy caravan style shower area. WHY?! |
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| Master bedroom |
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| Magnus' bedroom |
Once we started ripping out all the crap it was hard to stop. And we decided that whilst we could live with bare walls, undecorated rooms, jobs that needed finishing, we could definitely NOT live with the amount of shite left behind. The poor house has suffered years and years of abuse and really needed liberating from the ten tons of crap we've taken out. Several enormous skips worth so far actually.... BUT we are now at a point where just about all the stuff to be taken out (bar the kitchen for now) is out. Whoooopeee!!!
As well as the demolition of the hideous feature fireplaces, several walls and quite a few bits of "fitted" furniture, we have completely rewired, rejigged the plumbing and installed a new boiler. We are now in the middle of putting in the new bathroom and reconfiguring the layout downstairs. We have 2 bedrooms more or less ready to decorate and I've been digging the garden, just because there isn't much else I can do while I'm watching the kids... and it'll soon be time to get the beans and peas in the ground ;-)
I won't even start talking about the emotional upheaval. We're doing ok under the circumstances but we are all really ready to move into our new home pretty soon. We can't settle at the moment, we need to put down roots before our first little shoots can start reaching for the light here.
I can't put into words how much I'm looking forward to the seeing this new view from our bedroom window in a week or two.
You can see the progress we're making on our project in all it's glory via
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4 comments:
Oh oh oh! It looks so wonderful! So much potential! I'm so happy for you, Sarah!
Wow! That bathroom is certainly interesting!
Love love love your view though, it's going to be a wonderful home.
Oh my, oh my, oh my. What an enormous task and completely transformative. Must feel so good to clear it and start again, but oh, such hard work and so kind of unsettling and disordered and chaotic. But the view is fantastic and so is the fact that you have come this far. I hope this summer is the best ever for you all and can't wait to come and visit.
Thanks a lot ladies ;-)
Annie, thanks! I'm so glad to know you- I've been thinking of you and how you managed your big move so beautifully in my wobbly moments. I know we will be happy here and most of the time I only see how it will be in the end- the full potential ;)
Ah Jeanette- the bathroom was unbelieveable. Will you be using it as inspiration for a new design?! Big hugs to you XX
Sue-Ann, I can't wait for you to come and visit either. It is disordered and a little chaotic but we are also absurdly house proud on our "site" so it is as clean and tidy and calm as can be. I've been burning incense and lighting candles to give thanks to the universe for giving us this opportunity. It is stressful but it will be worth it ;)
Love you all XXX
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